Lirra Gem Quotes & Sayings

I've hardly had an avant-garde career ... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time. — Alan J. Pakula

None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full. — Thomas Watson

Ted Cruz just in a different league. He understands conservatism because he is. — Rush Limbaugh

If a novel reveals true and vivid relationships, it is a moral work, no matter what the relationships consist in. If the novelisthonours the relationship in itself, it will be a great novel. — D.H. Lawrence

I used to say that the greatest gift you could ever give anyone is a book. But I don't say that anymore because I no longer think it's true. I now say that a book is the second greatest gift. I've come to believe that the greatest gift you can give people is to take the time to talk with them about a book you've shared. A book is a great gift; the gift of your interest and attention is even greater. — Will Schwalbe

We can't have it so there are skyscrapers side by side with slums. — Li Keqiang

Acrostics in French or acrostics in Hebrew were still Greek to him. — Dorothy Dunnett

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men. — Norm MacDonald

I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again. — Aidan Quinn

Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it? — Alexei Sayle

You have to pass an exam, and the jobs that you get are either to shine shoes, or to herd cows, or to tend pigs. Thank God, I don't want any of that! Damn it! And besides that they smack you for a reward; they call you an animal and it's not true, a little kid, etc.. Oh! Damn Damn Damn Damn Damn! — Arthur Rimbaud

When I can't fall sleep, I pray. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I want to be here with you, Avery. You don't have to worry about impressing me or wowing me. You've already done that. — J. Lynn